In September 2000, the primary Neocon thinktank, Project for a New American Century, published a report Rebuilding America's Defenses outlining a blueprint for using the dominant American military power to "redesign" the middleeast with an invasion of Iraq to topple Saddham Hussein and plant military bases across the area as a centerpeices of the the plan. Today the Washington Post suggests that the PNAC may be closing its doors as it sees its Mission Accomplished.
The doors may be closing shortly on the nine-year-old Project for a New American Century, the neoconservative think tank headed by William Kristol , former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle and now editor of the Weekly Standard, which is must reading for neocon cogitators and agitators.
The PNAC was short on staff -- having perhaps a half-dozen employees -- but very long on heavy hitters. The founders included Richard B. Cheney , Donald H. Rumsfeld , Paul D. Wolfowitz , Jeb Bush , I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , William J. Bennett, Zalmay Khalilzad and Quayle.